Nora: Tell me, is it really true that you did not love your husband? Why did you marry him?

Mrs. Linde: My mother was alive then, and was bedridden and helpless, and I had to provide for my two younger brothers; so I did not think I was justified in refusing his offer.

Nora: No, perhaps you were quite right. He was rich at that time, then?

Mrs. Linde: I believe he was quite well off. But his business was a precarious one; and, when he died, it all went to pieces and there was nothing left.

–A Doll’s House,
Henrik Ibsen

How does the character of Mrs. Linde help develop the idea of gender inequality?

She says that she married her husband to save his business from failing.
She says that she did not think she could turn down her husband’s proposal.
She says that she married her husband because he was sick and needed care.
She says that she married her husband out of love, which was not always done at that time.